Reflecting on Practice: Professionalization of the Teacher

Abstract

This article reflects on the task of the teacher. This task implies carrying out a comprehensive and complex profession, since teachers are the ones who, as professionals, strengthen the intellectual, academic, social and coexistence abilities of the students in their charge. For this reason, developing practice is a training process that implies fostering the desire of students to improve in various fields.
The proposed strategies are not exclusive to the teaching labor, because the main purpose is to improve professional performance even in other areas of expertise. Applying transformation of practical practices implies building perspectives that respond to approaches through the analysis of daily work and constant resolution of problematic situations. Undoubtedly, in order to understand the transformations and promote the permanent improvement of the teaching duty, it is essential to systematize a reflective practice into a social habitus, as it is a practice that takes place in a collective environment.
It is assumed that in order to fulfill the corresponding teaching duty, it is necessary to prepare and update the assistance that guides and favors the mobilization of knowledge. In this sense, it is necessary to provide teacher-training students with strategies that promote ...

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